(CDPH – fis.com) The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is advising consumers not to eat recreationally harvested mussels and clams, commercially or recreationally caught anchovy and sardines, or the internal organs of commercially or recreationally caught crab and lobster taken from the northern Channel Islands located offshore of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. Dangerous levels of the nerve toxin domoic acid have been detected in some of these species and may be present in the other species not yet tested. Domoic acid is a naturally occurring toxin that can cause illness or death in humans.

(Hoy) Ecuadorian tuna is reaching new markets. And one of the markets most interested is Venezuela, which is becoming an attractive prospect for Ecuadorian tuna exporters.

(vasep.com.vn) To the end of August 2012, Dong Thap province harvested fish in the area of 6,571 hectares. In which, pangasius farming expanse reached 1,457.48 hectares, including 701.49 hectares harvested and other 756 hectares in production. Surface area used for scampi cultivation was 1,206.6 hectares of which 210 hectares are coming into harvest. Superficies for other fish aquaculture reached 3,907 hectares in which 2,026 hectares were harvested and 1,880 hectares were in production.

(vcstar.com) American Samoa's governor says the territory will begin exporting canned tuna products to a foreign country for the first time.

(Manilastandardtoday) Senator Loren Legarda on Friday expressed alarm over the declining tuna stocks worldwide due to overfishing.

(TheFishSite) Total catch of Icelandic vessels in August 2012 was 100,401 tonnes compared with 109,814 tonnes in August 2011.

(SeafoodSource) Slower economic growth means China’s diners are eating at home more often. A slowdown in economic growth, caused by weakness in the European Union, China’s leading export market, has been heightened by a government squeeze on credit to the real estate sector.

(seafood.com) Moscow - The Russian government plans to start an active development of domestic fish processing, as part of the recently approved 'Strategy of Food Processing in Russia until 2020'.

(timesofindia) The Centre has set the goal to double fish production in the North East region and targeting to achieve a per capita availability of 15 kg of fish by 2020 as part of the activities promoting livelihood, director of Odisha-based Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) Dr P Jayasankar said on Tuesday.

(NASS-USDA) Farm-raised catfish processed during July 2012 totaled 25.1 million pounds round weight, down 6 percent from July 2011. The average price paid to producers was 84.3 cents per pound for July 2012, down 9.1 cents from last month and 40.9 cents below a year ago.

(seafood.com) TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Gov. Rick Scott is seeking federal disaster assistance due to the failure of Florida's oyster fishery.

(fis.com) China moved to cut the price it offers for Pakistan's cuttlefish, making it difficult for local exporters to capitalise on the new season's catch which so far was 'normal', fisheries sources told Business Recorder on Thursday 6 Sept.

(SeafoodSource) Fish consumption in leading Western European countries is steadily growing, despite the effects of the global recession and the problems in the local fisheries sectors. The global financial crisis and its effects have not resulted in a sharp decline of fish consumption in Germany and especially France, where the demand for fish and seafood appears higher than it was just a few years ago.

(apfic.org) Representatives of the member countries of the Asia Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC) and Regional partner organizations will meet in Da Nang, Viet Nam 17-22 September to discuss the management and governance of fisheries and aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific.

(seafood.com) Global tuna stocks are fast reaching the limits of fishing sustainability, decimated by an absence of comprehensive, science-based catch limits, conservation experts warned.